Existentialism Reading Projects
AP English Literature and
Composition
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a chiefly 20th century philosophical movement
embracing diverse doctrines but centering on
analysis of individual existence in an
unfathomable universe and the plight of the
individual who must assume ultimate
responsibility for acts of free will without any
certain knowledge of what is right or wrong or
good or bad
Project Requirements
• Read your assigned text.
– Make annotations.
– Discuss it with your fellow group members who
are reading the same text.
• Complete a Major Works Data Sheet on your
assigned text.
– Each group member may have the same “stuff” on
the Major Works Data Sheet, but each group
member should have his/her own.
Presentation Requirements
• Spend one class period teaching the class about
existentialism in literature and how your work
does (or does not?) demonstrate it.
– In that class period, you must NOT be
lecturing/talking/presenting all the time.
– Challenge your fellow students with a passage from
your work.
• Make copies of a selected passage.
– Ask questions and lead a discussion in which your
peers interact with a selected portion of your text,
armed with context from you about both your
assigned text and its literary time period.
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Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern are
Dead by Tom
Stoppard
The Stranger by
Albert Camus
Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
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No Exit by Jean
Paul Sartre
Endgame by
Samuel Beckett
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Group Members
(5)
Sophie
• Kelsey
• Kerin
• Rachel
• Theron
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Buy the book.
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Group Members
(5)
Lauren
• Sarah
• Amanda
• Quentin
• Jaclyn
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Read it online for
free!
Buy the book.
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Group Members
(5)
A.J.
• Travis
• Corey
• McKenzie
• Calvin
Buy the book.
Read it online for
free!
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Part 1
Part 2
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Group Members (5)
James
• Dennis
• Will
• A.J.
• Jordan
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•
Buy the book!
Read it online for free!
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Group Members (5)
Aaron
• MacKenzie
• Elaysha
• Alex
• Marissa
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Buy the book!
Read it online for free!
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Major Works Data
Sheet
40 points
Follow your notes!
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Class Presentation
100 points
Bring your text and
your MWDS. Use
them!
Come prepared with
copies and any other
materials you need.
Engage the class.
Contribute equally
and significantly.